New Poor Prepper?

[Yorkshire Andy]

Have you got a garden?


loads of things like this on amazon...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vegetables-Seed ... FJG4D5WJSG

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Winter-Vegetabl ... FJG4D5WJSG

http://www.amazon.co.uk/15-packs-vegeta ... spring+veg

and some starter stuff for growing the seeds on a window sill til your able to plant out

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nutleys-Cells-S ... seed+trays

and a few garden tools if you dont have them (spade / fork / rake/ hoe trowl) dont bother with a dibber you can use a pencil or pen





grow it eat it and if you can grow enough sell a bit on your door step (or pickle / freeze it)

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Advice/Grow-Your-Own/Vegetables

[jansman]

Look around you and adapt what you have. The real basics of survival are simple, so simple I think we can all lose sight and concentrate on buying *stuyff*!
Food,water,shelter and fuel. That is it really. If 50p is all youhave, then great(and you don't even have to miss a meal). Buy food. Full stop. You can get a kilo of rice for 40p, take a meal out of it,you do not need much, and put the rest in a container. Bingo! You just started your food storage. You have 10p to carry over to next week. You can buy a bag of pasta for less than 30p. And so it goes on. Before you know it you will have a bit of grub to cover you in an emergency.
Water. Clean out some 2 litre pop bottles and fill'em from the tap. Keep them in a cool dark place and use them or change them every six months. We had a water main burst last week and we were without water for a good time. No problem as we had bottles of tap water.
Shelter. You have a place to live, and obviously electricity. When you can run to it(or perhaps you already have one) get a torch. You can get 12 batteriesfor a pound. Then you have light in a powercut. Or candles and matches. Do you have a battery radio? With that you can keep informed if the power goes out. There is a use for some of that Amazon voucher!

[grenfell]

Welcome to the forum . Good advice from others about growing your own if you can , and I'd add look to charity shops and freecycle and a bit of research such as , for example , how people survived on much less food , fuel and clothing during the war can be interesting and helpful. Without trying to sound flippant starting with little can sometimes give one an advantage over those with plenty of free cash. There can be an attitude that buying lots of fancy gear puts one in a superior position and can nurture a belief that failure is impossible without every actually facing problems , whereas HAVING to survive on very little can make for a stronger more resilient person.

[Wulfshead]

Welcome to UKP.

Wulfshead

[lightningxl]

Welcome. I too fell foul to the system breaking down and failing when i needed it most really get to know who your real friends are.....

On that point my best prep is cultivating a relationship with the people around you - with similar interests - offering help with jobs or time knowing that the favour will be returned at some time in the future. Cost nothing involves a lot of trust but finding people to share ideas with is priceless.

Knowledge is light weight needs no batteries and could save your life...

Lookforward to hearing about your preps in the future.

[Plymtom]

Some bloody good advice from folk fully qualified out of the University of hard knocks on this one, Welcome poor prepper isn't it good to see that you can improve your situation without having a huge disposable income

On that point my best prep is cultivating a relationship with the people around you - with similar interests - offering help with jobs or time knowing that the favour will be returned at some time in the future. Cost nothing involves a lot of trust but finding people to share ideas with is priceless.

"Making friends" always did go far beyond a click on social media "cultivating a relationship with the people around you " a phrase I don't think I've seen better put as the more you put into it the more they will, it's all too easy to be taken for a mug and be jaded my wife and I can testify to that, but you realize in time even of you've found yet another friend who lets you down, it was still a success in the grand scheme of things

[tanstaafl]

Look around you and adapt what you have. The real basics of survival are simple, so simple I think we can all lose sight and concentrate on buying *stuyff*!
Food,water,shelter and fuel. That is it really. If 50p is all youhave, then great(and you don't even have to miss a meal). Buy food. Full stop. You can get a kilo of rice for 40p, take a meal out of it,you do not need much, and put the rest in a container. Bingo! You just started your food storage. You have 10p to carry over to next week. You can buy a bag of pasta for less than 30p. And so it goes on. Before you know it you will have a bit of grub to cover you in an emergency.
Water. Clean out some 2 litre pop bottles and fill'em from the tap. Keep them in a cool dark place and use them or change them every six months. We had a water main burst last week and we were without water for a good time. No problem as we had bottles of tap water.
Shelter. You have a place to live, and obviously electricity. When you can run to it(or perhaps you already have one) get a torch. You can get 12 batteriesfor a pound. Then you have light in a powercut. Or candles and matches. Do you have a battery radio? With that you can keep informed if the power goes out. There is a use for some of that Amazon voucher!

Very sound advice jansman, I too look to be unemployed for the first time in 17 years (health reasons as well) but before that I spent a lot of years on the "other side " as the OP said, wander around the supermarket, look on the bottom shelf, there is load of stuff very cheap to be had, asda had sardines for 12p a tin, I dont like them much but bought 20, a good food source , own brand beans,meatballs , hotdogs, if you are hungry you will eat anything and all had a long use by date, years IIRC add that to jansmans and a earlier posters rice pasta etc and you will soon get there...............


Dont buy books, download a free kindle app or somesuch, tons of legal places to download stuff and some other places as well (ahoy me hearty)


Poundshops are good + chinese stores are very cheap ali express etc usually free delivery to the UK

ATB jase



PS some Amazon Stuff

http://www.amazon.co.uk/UNICOM-RADIO-SU ... d+up+radio

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silverline-Tool ... ds=lantern